On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:43, Peter Van Lone wrote:
using SUSE10, when I went into yast to enable the ntp client, I am warned about setting it to execute "on boot". The warning says:
"Warning! If you do not have a permanent internet connection, starting the NTP daemon can take a very long time, and the daemon might not run properly"
Huh?
When you boot and start up ntp, it will try to go out and set the time and if you don't have a connection, it is going to hang there for a timeout. Not good. A much better way to set the time on a laptop would be to have a cron job that uses ntpdate. Twice a day should be enough.
So, if I have a laptop, that does not at all times have an inet connection, basically I should not use the NTP client? Is there any good way to, once an inet connection IS established, sync time to an NTP server?
Yast seems to only give "never" and "on boot" as ntp sync options. If there is a command I can execute from a shell, that would be fine.
Peter
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